Written Quotes
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I wouldn't say I see things visually first, but what I do think is important, for a lot of screenwriters, is to not just think about the words on the page, but also the world as a whole and the vibe of the movie, rather than a sequence of scenes written on the page.
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I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.
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I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.
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The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.
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Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for them - to do a story on the Rolling Thunder Review, which was Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Joan Baez and a host of stars. My wife, some weeks before, had written in The New York Times that The Kid wasn't The Kid anymore and he wasn't all that winning anymore.
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Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.
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The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
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I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.
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History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
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I feel like part of the inequality is that there are few great roles written for older women, and I think part of that is, basically, people want to look at young women, whereas men are still considered attractive - or more attractive - when they get older.
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When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.
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I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Perhaps this is why in 1776, Thomas Paine used these words as a title for the most famous pamphlet ever written.
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'Crush' is probably the most honest project I've ever written. It's my voice.
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The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.
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Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
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The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.
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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
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It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do.
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Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.
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When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.
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History is not what happened but what is written down
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He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."
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So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
